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Questions, bug reports, features requests, ... about the Oric Software Development Kit. Please indicate clearly in the title the related element (OSDK for generic questions, PictConv, FilePack, XA, Euphoric, etc...) to make it easy to locate messages.

The new Pictconv (incorporating Img2Oric) has a couple of problems (on WinXp anyway):

When running in a batch file the very first image it processes ends with a windows error message : "Pictconv has experienced a serious problem and needs to close". When pressing OK to continue any subsequent files are processed OK.

Second, the processing is way too slow. The pipi.exe from PIMP is MUCH faster and gives at least equivalent results.

From the PIMP website:

"There used to be a program called img2oric to do this task, but The Pimp and libpipi’s pipi utility are now far more powerful."

I would agree with this. Can you incorporate PIMP with PictConv instead of Img2Oric?

On the plus side, using PictConv's -o4 option I'm able to produce a .s file. Using the data from .s I'm hoping to produce a short video. Later today hopefully.

barnsey123 wrote:The new Pictconv (incorporating Img2Oric) has a couple of problems (on WinXp anyway):
When running in a batch file the very first image it processes ends with a windows error message : "Pictconv has experienced a serious problem and needs to close". When pressing OK to continue any subsequent files are processed OK.

Could you include the picture and the parameters you used so I can try to reproduce the issue?

barnsey123 wrote:Second, the processing is way too slow. The pipi.exe from PIMP is MUCH faster and gives at least equivalent results.

I need to find the source code/routine then, I suspect it's the same code but with depth 2 instead of 3 (That's the difference between 2 seconds vs 45 seconds).